Improvement in billiard-tables



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER SOHOULLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BILLIARD-TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 55,721, dated June 19, 1866.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that l, PE'rERSoHoULLER, of Boston, in the county ot' Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bi1liard-Tables; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, which represents a section of the rim or guard of a billiardl table with my improvement applied thereon, and to the elastic strip of caoutchouc forming partof the said guard or rim.

The nature of the said invention consists in the combination and arrangement of a receiving channel or chamber with the elastic strip and its supporting-rail, such being to enable the strip to spring back to better advantage under the blow of a ball.

In the drawing, A denotes the elastic strip, and B the part or rail for supporting such strip, such rail being rabbeted for such purpose.

In carrying out my improvement I form the said rail with a groove or channel, a, to extend and to preserve its elasticity to much better advantage than it will when supported at its back against a bearing-surface extending entirely along the back and against it.

I claim- The arrangement and combination of the channel a with the rail B and the elastic or caoutchouc strip A of a billiard-table, the same being substantially as specied.

PETER SGHOULLER.

Witnesses:

RH. EDDY,

E. I). HALE, Jr. 

